Audio Column by Sukey Howard

In 1952, two young New York women, just out of college, started Caedmon records and, in effect, launched the commercial spoken word recording industry. Now a division of HarperAudio, Caedmon is still "putting great voices to great books" and still going strong. Dylan Thomas read five of his poems and A Child's Christmas in Wales for the very first Caedmon recording. It was a smashing...

Audio Column by Sukey Howard

In 1952, two young New York women, just out of college, started Caedmon records and, in effect, launched the commercial spoken word recording industry. Now a division of HarperAudio, Caedmon is still "putting great voices to great books" and still going strong. Dylan Thomas read five of his poems and A Child's Christmas in Wales for the very first Caedmon recording. It was a smashing...

Audio Column by Sukey Howard

In 1952, two young New York women, just out of college, started Caedmon records and, in effect, launched the commercial spoken word recording industry. Now a division of HarperAudio, Caedmon is still "putting great voices to great books" and still going strong. Dylan Thomas read five of his poems and A Child's Christmas in Wales for the very first Caedmon recording. It was a smashing...

Audio Column by Sukey Howard

In 1952, two young New York women, just out of college, started Caedmon records and, in effect, launched the commercial spoken word recording industry. Now a division of HarperAudio, Caedmon is still "putting great voices to great books" and still going strong. Dylan Thomas read five of his poems and A Child's Christmas in Wales for the very first Caedmon recording. It was a smashing...

Audio Column by Sukey Howard

Kazuo Ishiguro's brilliant new novel, When We Were Orphans, is read by John Lee with such unerring pace, accent and emotion or lack thereof that it's difficult to imagine a better performance. The story moves back and forth between Shanghai and England, between the present here, the brink of WWII and the past and is told by Christopher Banks, a well-known detective whose parents...